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  1. Was down in New Orleans last year and we stayed in an Air B & B in the lower 9th ward.  Nice place with a very diverse neighborhood.

    Anyway...the kids got into a pick up street football game with some of the locals.  Good times..one of the local boy's name was French Fry...he was quite a character.  His brother's name was Joe, so not sure what happened there.

  2. 20 minutes ago, sheeeit said:

    Like I said, we will just disagree at this point on the effects.

    But it is certainly telling that you decided not to comment on the main point of my post which was that the article posted used completely bogus and/or made up stories/facts to bolster its point.  You seem fine with that.

    The article points out things going on and states that this is what climate change /global warming would look like and thus far we seem unprepared.

    Yes, they take some leaps and hope the reader infers certain things not stated.

    They got one point totally wrong about the reactors(I'm pretty sure a grid of some kind crashes almost every day-so no), but had they gotten the order correct-i.e "rivers to warm to accept warmed reactor water for fear of fish kill" then it would have been on point with the thesis of the article, which is this is what this would look like-even tough the actual example was limited to a case of one.

    I get your point.  This reads like a do gooder housewife wrote it, which is why I get my news from better sources and you should too.

  3. On 8/2/2018 at 12:21 PM, Whitman said:

     

    This gets me every time.  Pure comedy genius.  From the little Buggs at the border to a correct rendering of Lake Okeechobee to the fantastic speed at which the peninsula just hauls ass out into the Atlantic.

  4. 2 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    Republicans are extremely cheap whores.

    I am beginning to think they are not.

    We are seeing the systematic dismantling of decades worth of citizen protections in the name of profit along with heightened risk of nuclear war also in the name of profit.

    Is it so difficult to believe that Russia interference could be a smoke screen and that this was an inside job? or have I OD'ed on Hugo.?

  5. 30 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    “His powerful mind.... if you know what I mean..... (he’s white).”

    Seems like Tiger's mental game was pretty good-his tee shots were suffering and he got robbed on a few putts-and still managed to keep it together.  Koepka on the other hand could have run away with this had he putted like Tiger. The putts Keopka missed were all on him.

  6. 20 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    There are about a thousand adjectives that could be used to describe Omarosa that are better and more effective than "Wacky."  Fat Boy has lost his touch, it seems.

    Zaney , mad capped, ragamuffin, silly, rascally, scamp and screwy .

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  7. 24 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:

    He's just going to end up renaming NASA and then take credit for the "new" entity.   Probably while getting rid of the atmospheric analysis stuff that matters for climate change tracking and response. 

    Seems a little subtle for this group. But yeah something like that is the goal.

  8. 15 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    That to pay for the socialism this dipshit advocates, it will be on the backs of the middle class.  Won’t hurt the rich much.  You talk about taxing people who make $60k at a 60 percent marginal rate.  That will go over well.  

    So we should just raise the taxes on the rich?  Seems to be what you are saying.

    All kidding aside, comparisons with Scandinavian countries are really tough. They benefit from having had these systems in place longer, smaller populace, landmass, and budget, defense spending etc.  But the reason they work is that they actually get something for those taxes.  Additionally, from your article, the reason their taxes are much "flatter" than ours is that they have a much more even distribution of income across their populace so that structure works. Plus Norway at least has some sort of huge oil fund that kind of bankrolls everything.

    Also, lost in this discussion, is the concentration on individual tax rates.  The real problem with the Trump tax bill was the corporate stuff.  40% reduction in corporate taxes when things seemed to be going pretty well already -at the expense of the budget yet again.

     

  9. 33 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Here is how Democrat Socialist Nordic countries the left jerks off to tax income:

    High, but Flat Income and Payroll Taxes

    Scandinavian countries are known for having high taxes on income. According to the OECD, Denmark (26.4 percent), Norway (19.7 percent), and Sweden (22.1 percent) all raise a high amount of tax revenue as a percent of GDP from individual income taxes and payroll taxes. This is compared to the 15 percent of GDP raised by the United States through its individual income taxes and payroll taxes.

    In order to raise a lot of income tax revenue, income tax rates in Scandinavian countries are rather high except for in Norway. Denmark’s top marginal effective income tax rate is 60.4 percent. Sweden’s is 56.4 percent. Norway’s top marginal tax rate is 39 percent.

    However, the rates are not necessarily the most important feature of the Scandinavian income tax systems. In fact, the United States’ top marginal income tax rate is higher than Norway’s and only 18 percent lower than Sweden’s, yet raises 40 percent less income and payroll tax revenue than Norway and 50 percent less than Sweden.

    Scandinavian income taxes raise a lot of revenue because they are actually rather flat. In other words, they tax most people at these high rates, not just high-income taxpayers. The top marginal tax rate of 60 percent in Denmark applies to all income over 1.2 times the average income in Denmark. From the American perspective, this means that all income over $60,000 (1.2 times the average income of about $50,000 in the United States) would be taxed at 60 percent.

    Sweden and Norway have similarly flat income tax systems. Sweden’s top marginal tax rate of 56.9 percent applies to all income over 1.5 times the average income in Sweden. Norway’s top marginal tax rate of 39 percent applies to all income over 1.6 times the average Norwegian income.

    Compare this to The United States. The top marginal tax rate of 46.8 percent (state average and federal combined rates) kicks in at 8.5 times the average U.S. income (around $400,000). Comparatively, few taxpayers in the United States face the top marginal rate.

     

     

    What is your point?

  10. 18 minutes ago, this said:

    So (your) or democratic stance is that every time there is an increase in (voluntary) cost anywhere in the economy the burden to cover it should fall on the wealthy because they might benefit from it?

    In a progressive tax system it necessarily must fall to them-math. If the wealthy want less of a tax burden then make the middle class richer and tax them appropriately.

    There is no "might" about it.  That is how this works.

    20 minutes ago, this said:

    We are already doing that. 

    Top 1% pays for 40% of all income tax generated (27% effective tax rate)

    Top 5% pays for 60% of all income tax generated

    Top 10% pays for 70% of all income tax generated

    Top 25% pays for 86% of all income tax generated. 

    Bottom 50% pays for 3% of all income tax generated. (3% effective tax rate)

     

    No one's suggesting tax the poor, but fuck the right off with asking for more shit. Just because you keep repeating that this or that is a right does not make it so.

    Who is asking for more shit?  i would be happy with a balanced budget and a fair tax plan.

  11. 18 minutes ago, this said:

    I don't disagree with any of what you have just said. I just hate the rhetoric from Bernie and AOC that the "rich" dont pay their fair share. 

    Bull shit.

    Well that really is the debate.

    I don't want to derail this thread into a debate on where we should be federally on Laffer Curve but there is ample evidence that there is a decades long trend that the very wealthy are in fact not paying their fair share, which has been shifted in many ways to the middle class.  It happens in subtle ways that are not always even seen as direct federal taxation.

    Case in point is college tuition.  Even though it is more of a state issue.  The notion used to be that affordable state college tuition was a societal benefit paid mostly by various governments(ie wealthier taxpayers/businesses) as an investment in the future to be cashed in -in the form of an educated workforce (by the wealthy/businesses and society as a whole) without placing a crushing burden on working families to pay for it. The burden has shifted to the working families without the tax relief on the other side of the equation. Now one could argue that it is not the fault of the wealthy that the burden shifted, but it has shifted.

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  12. 1 hour ago, this said:

    Its intellectually dishonest at best and a lie at worst to say that "we wrote a check". You didn't do anything, people are just keeping more of THEIR OWN fucking money.

    I am no bleeding heart liberal but this statement is just flat out incorrect-especially the last part.

    The basis for a for a modern (or ancient ) economy is taxation, or more properly progressive taxation.  The notion that any individual is keeping all their own money is ridiculous.  All the things we do to make money rest on a foundation of easy commerce-everything from actual infrastructure to keeping the poor from rioting in the streets-and those things need to be paid for.  One can argue whether the government machinations are efficient or if we are being taxed too much for the services we get, but some portion of the money we make is not ours by virtue of the fact that the ability to make it  has been made possible, convenient, and codified by many forms of taxation. In reality it is simply another line item of expense.

    One of the great ironies about the taxation of the wealthy is that with a larger better educated middle class populace, the burden on the wealthy is relieved both in the form of tax relief due to a large broad tax paying demographic below them, and by the wealthy business owners being able to use that educated productive workforce. In other words it trickles up, not down.

     

    Lifelong republican, CPA, and business owner.

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  13. 13 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

    this presumes the others were not long . I also want this over by December, not tomorrow since that's impossible but preferable. A period of 10-12 months should be enough for any investigation and comparing this to other prolonged ones isn't a logical comparison. 

    That is a reasonable amount of time assuming they are not being obstructed.

  14. 1 hour ago, LCHorn said:

    I'm fine keeping it going until justice has prevailed.  I don't know if you've been paying attention but the current leadership isn't interested in working on any of the other stuff aside from tax cuts for the wealthy, anyway. 

    That is far from true. They have been quite busy

  15. On 8/7/2018 at 3:14 PM, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Pruitt was a great smoke screen.  I’m sure the cabinet misses him and his daily scandals.

    Pruitt was no smoke screen.  What he did at the EPA will take decades to undo. We were fortunate he was such a nut that he became a liability.

  16. 15 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-charlottesville/

    ^Full video here

    Released today.

    One of the better frontlines I’ve seen in a while.  This reporter uncovers some of the underground Nazi groups and doxes a few people including a guy working for Northrop Grumman and an active service member in the Marines. 

    ...and let me guess...like most (all) Frontlines, they don't go far enough.  Will watch to find out.

    One of the most glaring examples was the Hillary/Trump election profile special. They covered most of Hillary's stuff seeing as how she had been a public figure/servant for so long but barley scratched the surface with Donald. Not saying they didn't gig them both and give equal coverage but I guess the is only so much you can do in an hour/hour and a half.

  17. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    voting_software_2x.png

    Speaking as a professional software engineer, the third panel is 100% true.

    There's actually a better explanation than "our entire field is bad at what we do," and that is: "There is literally no way to prevent any computerized voting system from having its votes altered to fit a desired outcome, and it can be done in ways that are 100% undetectable." And this problem exists at the most fundamental levels of how the systems work; no technology, encryption algorithm, or anything can prevent this from happening.

    This is kind of an old issue, but it's a new comic, that expresses the problem better than anything I've seen.

    That is a Randall Munroe Comic.  His stuff is great. Especially the books. This probably belongs in Nerdz.

  18. 24 minutes ago, Lagunamadre said:

    It's just another shiny object, like Iran tweet, to divert attention from negative Russia press. Don't like the media coverage du jour? Throw a bunch of shit at the wall and see what sticks, it's team Trump's M.O. 

    I would argue the Russia press is a shiny object itself-to distract us from this:

    https://www.dcreport.org/2018/07/23/you-may-never-know-who-owns-your-representative-or-senator/

    or this:

    https://www.dcreport.org/2018/07/20/the-federal-deficit-mulvaney-says-the-congressional-budget-office-was-right-after-all/

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  19. 38 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    This would be tweet number 9 on the morning...NOT including the Iran nuclear war tweet

     

    The Post would be hard pressed to lose as much money as Trump's golf courses.

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